American McGee Wants Your Help Securing the Film Rights for Alice - Polidicks

[url=http://kotaku.com/american-mcgee-wants-your-help-securing-the-film-rights-651658385][t]http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12875849/jotain/KotakuLogo.jpg[/t][/url] [quote]The good news is that while McGee's Spicy Horse development studio is still in talks with EA about a third game in the Alice series (Alice: Otherlands), the company has managed to ink a deal with Collision Entertainment, the current holder of the franchise's film rights. In a statement to Kotaku, American McGee explains how the deal is structured. "As with most things in Hollywood, the deal is a little complex. It's structured as a purchase option, which is like 'rent to own.' We pay $100k USD to secure the option, which also enables us to make animated shorts based on the Alice property. In order to purchase the license outright and be able to make a feature film we need to pay $500k USD in total. The initial payment of $100k USD goes towards that final purchase price. That initial payment needs to be followed up with yearly payments in the same amount or the rights revert to the seller." [/quote] [quote]The plan is to link the film rights for Alice together with the [url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spicyhorse/ozombie]OZombie campaign, Spicy Horse's Kickstarter project[/url] currently accepting donations towards funding a game in which Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Lion of L. Frank Baum's classic Oz series join forces to take on Scarecrow and his army of zombies. [/quote]

well the alice games are p.awesome

Hollywood needs to put the Alice in Wonderland thing to bed already. They've been beating that horse for a CENTURY and still try to get more and more money out of it. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_and_television_programmes_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland[/url]

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;41287524]Hollywood needs to put the Alice in Wonderland thing to bed already. They've been beating that horse for a CENTURY and still try to get more and more money out of it. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_and_television_programmes_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland[/url][/QUOTE] hollywood/the movie industry has had literally 0 risk or creativity along with most popular entertainment franchises of today, we all wish it was filled with new titles and new ideas but that stuff just won't happen, as long as people buy/watch it.

After going through the artbook they compiled for A:MR, I'd [i]really[/i] like to see these guys try their hand at an animated Alice film. One of the concepts for Alice Returns they toyed with was Alice being targeted by Jack the Ripper (since she checks most of the boxes he seemed to have a liking to), and whenever Alice actually saw him her already mangled psyche perceived him as a horrible non-euclidean monster trying to pass off as human. Can you even imagine that getting fleshed out and animated?

Usually people tend to find McGee's games better on a story and art-direction front than the gameplay, so him doing a film would probably work quite well. [QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;41287524]Hollywood needs to put the Alice in Wonderland thing to bed already. They've been beating that horse for a CENTURY and still try to get more and more money out of it. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Films_and_television_programmes_based_on_Alice_in_Wonderland[/url][/QUOTE] I'd still like to see an Alice film that's more faithful to the source material. One thing I liked about McGee's Alice, despite being very dark they clearly show quite a bit of respect of Carroll's original work.

[QUOTE=Tweevle;41288261]Usually people tend to find McGee's games better on a story and art-direction front than the gameplay, so him doing a film would probably work quite well. I'd still like to see an Alice film that's more faithful to the source material. One thing I liked about McGee's Alice, despite being very dark they clearly show quite a bit of respect of Carroll's original work.[/QUOTE] I'd agree with that. Game was beautiful, story was good (if not great), but the gameplay was utter shit. Anoooooother jumping puzzle? After just solving twenty? Yeah, no.